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Olivia de Palermo

5th‑century Sicilian teenage virgin and martyr, Christian saint, venerated in Palermo and Tunis

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Feast: 10 June (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)

Born
448
Died
463
Beatified
not needed: before formal processes
Canonised
By tradition
recognised before formal processes began

Who they were

Olivia of Palermo (Italian: Oliva dì Palermo, Sicilian: Uliva di Palermu), Palermo, 448 – Tunis, 10 June 463, while according to another tradition she is supposed to have lived in the late 9th century AD in the Muslim Emirate of Sicily is a Christian virgin-martyr who was venerated as a local patron saint of Palermo, Sicily, since the Middle Ages, as well as in the Sicilian towns of Monte San Giuliano, Termini Imerese, Alcamo, Pettineo and Cefalù.

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The miracles

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Why that counted as sanctity

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Sources

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